Sorry for caps but this is a BURNING HOT deal!
Given recent pricing on the IBM M1015 which is a SAS 2008 based card with no onboard cache has been approaching $100 lately, I decided to look at the IBM ServeRAID M5014.
I looked at a deal on ebay and saw a no-bracket M5014 part 46M0916-B2 for $130.30 with free shipping and tax in California. That is just over $140 all-in because the seller uses 9.25% tax. Also, you get $2.61 in ebay bucks if you are signed up for each. The big catch, again was no bracket.
When it arrived... I saw something big over the 256MB of cache, a BBU! I of course wanted a bracket bit wow!
Just checking, these are fairly well aged batteries, but probably have a bit of life left.
For those wondering, the main difference between this part and the IBM M5015 is that the M5014 only has 256MB of cache.
I contacted BigXor, a forum member here, for a full height and low profile bracket (which he sells) and he got them to me really fast. Here is his post: http://forums.servethehome.com/show...Bracket-IBM-BR10i-M1015-LSI-9240-9260-and-etc
Before posting this, I wanted to make sure that it was not a one off so I bought the lab three more. They just arrived today, all with BBUs!
Here is a post on flashing the M5014 to the LSI 9260-8i firmware, and here is the ISO I used to flash over IPMI on the hard to flash with Supermicro X9SCM-F (has both motherboard and LSI SAS 2108 BIOS). I use that ISO as my master flashing ISO for Supermicro X9SCx motherboards and LSI SAS 2108 and SAS 2008 controllers. There are other firmware/ BIOS for different SAS 2018 controllers on there.
So again... scorching hot deal for a a no-bracket M5014 (with BBU) part 46M0916-B2 for $130.30 Go get one (or a few)!
Given recent pricing on the IBM M1015 which is a SAS 2008 based card with no onboard cache has been approaching $100 lately, I decided to look at the IBM ServeRAID M5014.
I looked at a deal on ebay and saw a no-bracket M5014 part 46M0916-B2 for $130.30 with free shipping and tax in California. That is just over $140 all-in because the seller uses 9.25% tax. Also, you get $2.61 in ebay bucks if you are signed up for each. The big catch, again was no bracket.
When it arrived... I saw something big over the 256MB of cache, a BBU! I of course wanted a bracket bit wow!
Just checking, these are fairly well aged batteries, but probably have a bit of life left.
For those wondering, the main difference between this part and the IBM M5015 is that the M5014 only has 256MB of cache.
I contacted BigXor, a forum member here, for a full height and low profile bracket (which he sells) and he got them to me really fast. Here is his post: http://forums.servethehome.com/show...Bracket-IBM-BR10i-M1015-LSI-9240-9260-and-etc
Before posting this, I wanted to make sure that it was not a one off so I bought the lab three more. They just arrived today, all with BBUs!
Here is a post on flashing the M5014 to the LSI 9260-8i firmware, and here is the ISO I used to flash over IPMI on the hard to flash with Supermicro X9SCM-F (has both motherboard and LSI SAS 2108 BIOS). I use that ISO as my master flashing ISO for Supermicro X9SCx motherboards and LSI SAS 2108 and SAS 2008 controllers. There are other firmware/ BIOS for different SAS 2018 controllers on there.
So again... scorching hot deal for a a no-bracket M5014 (with BBU) part 46M0916-B2 for $130.30 Go get one (or a few)!